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List of works by R. Paul Drake

A journey through high-energy-density physics

scholarly article

A physics informed emulator for laser-driven radiating shock simulations

Ablative stabilization of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities resulting from a laser-driven radiative shock

scholarly article published in May 2018

Alternative mechanism for omega(0)/2 emission in laser-produced plasmas

scientific article published on 01 April 2001

An evaluation of high energy bremsstrahlung background in point-projection x-ray radiography experiments.

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Atomic modeling of photoionization fronts in nitrogen gas

CRASH: a block-adaptive-mesh code for radiative shock Hydrodynamics--Implementation and verification

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Characterizing counter-streaming interpenetrating plasmas relevant to astrophysical collisionless shocks

Collisionless shock experiments with lasers and observation of Weibel instabilitiesa)

Competition between the stimulated Raman and Brillouin scattering instabilities in 0.35- microm irradiated CH foil targets

scientific article published on 01 June 1989

Conceptual design of an experiment to study dust destruction by astrophysical shock waves

scholarly article published in 2018

Construction of a solenoid used on a magnetized plasma experiment.

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Current filamentation instability in laser wakefield accelerators

scientific article published on 08 March 2011

Demonstration of imaging X-ray Thomson scattering on OMEGA EP.

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Demonstration of x-ray fluorescence imaging of a high-energy-density plasma.

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Detailed characterization of the LLNL imaging proton spectrometer.

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Detection of ion plasma waves by collective Thomson scattering

scientific article published on 01 May 1995

Developed turbulence and nonlinear amplification of magnetic fields in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas

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Development of a backlit-multi-pinhole radiography source

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Development of a short duration backlit pinhole for radiography on the National Ignition Facility.

scientific article published in October 2010

Direct evidence of ponderomotive filamentation in a laser-produced plasma

scientific article published on 01 November 1988

Direct measurements of the ion acoustic decay instability in a laser-produced, large-scale, hot plasma

scientific article published on 01 November 1994

Drake, Williams, Young, Estabrook, Kruer, Baldis, and Johnston reply:

scientific article published on 01 November 1988

Electron acceleration in laboratory-produced turbulent collisionless shocks

scientific article published on 8 June 2020

Electronic measurement of microchannel plate pulse height distributions.

scientific article published in October 2010

Energetic electrons driven in the polarization direction of an intense laser beam incident normal to a solid target.

scientific article published in January 2016

Enhanced accuracy of x-ray spectra reconstruction from filtered diode array measurements by adding a time integrated spectrometer.

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Evidence for collisional damping in high-energy Raman-scattering experiments at 0.26 microm

scientific article published on 01 January 1985

Evidence that stimulated Raman scattering in laser-produced plasmas is an absolute instability

scientific article published on 01 March 1988

Experimental astrophysics with high power lasers and Z pinches

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Experimental considerations to observe two ionizing fronts in systems with a sharp absorption edge

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Experimental platform for the investigation of magnetized-reverse-shock dynamics in the context of POLAR

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Generation of scaled protogalactic seed magnetic fields in laser-produced shock waves.

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High-Energy-Density Laboratory Astrophysics Studies of Jets and Bow Shocks

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

How high energy fluxes may affect Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth in young supernova remnants

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Imaging x-ray Thomson scattering spectrometer design and demonstration (invited).

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Implementation of a Talbot-Lau x-ray deflectometer diagnostic platform for the OMEGA EP laser

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Intensity scaling of stimulated Raman forward scattering in laser-produced plasmas

scientific article published on 01 May 1991

Investigation of ion-acoustic-decay-instability thresholds in laser-plasma interactions

scientific article published on 01 July 1990

Investigation of the hard x-ray background in backlit pinhole imagers.

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Laboratory analogue of a supersonic accretion column in a binary star system.

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Laboratory astrophysical collisionless shock experiments on Omega and NIF

Laboratory-astrophysics jet experiments at the omega laser facility

scientific article published in June 2006

Magnetized Disruption of Inertially Confined Plasma Flows

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Measurement of high-dynamic range x-ray Thomson scattering spectra for the characterization of nano-plasmas at LCLS.

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Measurement of high-energy (10-60 keV) x-ray spectral line widths with eV accuracy.

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Measurement of radiative shock properties by x-ray Thomson scattering

scientific article published on 02 April 2012

Measurements of inverse bremsstrahlung absorption and non-Maxwellian electron velocity distributions

scientific article published on 01 April 1994

Measurements of laser generated soft X-ray emission from irradiated gold foils.

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Measurements of radial heat wave propagation in laser-produced exploding-foil plasmas

scientific article published on 01 October 1994

Measurements of the energy spectrum of electrons emanating from solid materials irradiated by a picosecond laser

scientific article published in April 2015

Mini-conference and related sessions on laboratory plasma astrophysics

Mitigation of hard x-ray background in backlit pinhole imagers

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Mitigation of hot electrons from laser-plasma instabilities in high-Z, highly ionized plasmas

scientific article published in March 2017

Multiangle, time-resolved spectroscopy of laser-light scattering in underdense, inhomogeneous laser plasmas

scientific article published on 01 April 1995

Nonlinear mixing behavior of the three-dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor instability at a decelerating interface

scientific article published in May 2004

Observation of Single-Mode, Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in a Supersonic Flow.

scientific article published in October 2015

Observation of a Hydrodynamically Driven, Radiative-Precursor Shock

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Observation of a Kelvin-helmholtz instability in a high-energy-density plasma on the omega laser

scientific article published on 24 July 2009

Observation of collapsing radiative shocks in laboratory experiments

scientific article published in August 2006

Observation of forward Raman scattering in laser-produced plasmas

scientific article published on 01 October 1986

Observation of magnetic field generation via the Weibel instability in interpenetrating plasma flows

scientific article published on 19 January 2015

Observation of near-forward stimulated Brillouin scattering from a laser-produced plasma

scientific article published on 01 February 1993

Observation of plasma waves by Thomson scattering: Saturation of stimulated Raman scattering

scientific article published on 01 July 1993

Observation of stimulated Compton scattering from resonant electrons in a laser-produced plasma

Onset and Saturation of the Spectral Intensity of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Inhomogeneous Laser-Produced Plasmas

scientific article published on 01 July 1996

Performance of Au transmission photocathode on a microchannel plate detector

scientific article published in October 2008

Plasma heating via parametric beating of Alfvén waves, with heliospheric applications

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Proton imaging of an electrostatic field structure formed in laser-produced counter-streaming plasmas

Recent Experimental Results and Modelling of High-Mach-Number Jets and the Transition to Turbulence

scientific article published in July 2005

Scaled laboratory experiments explain the kink behaviour of the Crab Nebula jet

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Scaling supernova hydrodynamics to the laboratory

Self-organized electromagnetic field structures in laser-produced counter-streaming plasmas

Simultaneous spectrally and spatially resolved measurements of 3 omega 0/2 emission from laser-produced plasmas

scientific article published on 01 December 1988

Spatially resolved density and ionization measurements of shocked foams using x-ray fluorescence

scientific article published on 22 September 2016

Spectral analysis of x-ray emission created by intense laser irradiation of copper materials

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Spectral measurements of asymmetrically irradiated capsule backlighters.

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Structure and dynamics of colliding plasma jets

scientific article published on 3 December 2013

Study of shock waves and related phenomena motivated by astrophysics

scientific article published in March 2016

Temporal dispersion of a spectrometer

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Test of the Landau cutoff of stimulated Raman scattering spectra as an electron-temperature diagnostic in laser-produced plasmas

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

The impact of recent advances in laboratory astrophysics on our understanding of the cosmos

scientific article published on 22 February 2012

Thomson Scattering Measurements of the Langmuir Wave Spectra Resulting from Stimulated Raman Scattering

scientific article published on 01 July 1996

Three-wave parametric amplification in time-dependent media, with application to stimulated Brillouin scattering

scientific article published on 01 October 1991

Transition from Collisional to Collisionless Regimes in Interpenetrating Plasma Flows on the National Ignition Facility

scientific article published on 5 May 2017

Two-dimensional Blast-Wave-Driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability: experiment and simulation

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Validation of a turbulent Kelvin-Helmholtz shear layer model using a high-energy-density OMEGA laser experiment.

scientific article published on 10 October 2012

Visualizing electromagnetic fields in laser-produced counter-streaming plasma experiments for collisionless shock laboratory astrophysics

scholarly article by N. L. Kugland et al published May 2013 in Physics of Plasmas

What is certain and what is not so certain in our knowledge of Rayleigh-Taylor mixing?

scientific article published on 21 October 2013

X-ray emission caused by Raman scattering in long-scale-length plasmas

scientific article published on 01 September 1989